The news, dropped casually at a Bloomberg conference, felt less like an innovation announcement and more like a declaration of war on our last few pockets of peace. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri ...

Addiction, not external disasters, is India's biggest catastrophe, affecting over 50 crore people. This chronic brain disease ...

You own the most valuable real estate in the world. Deep inside your brain is the nucleus accumbens, a pea-sized bundle of neurons. When you do or anticipate something rewarding, dopamine is released ...

Mr. Auchincloss, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts’s Fourth Congressional District. You own the most valuable real estate in the world. Deep inside your brain is the nucleus accumbens, a pea-size ...

Floeder and colleagues provide an important investigation that describes the experimental conditions that systematically produce "ramps" in dopamine signaling in the striatum. This somewhat nebulous ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter — a chemical made in your brain. It carries messages to your nerve cells. Dopamine is also a hormone made in your adrenal glands that gets released into your bloodstream ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides evidence that the brain chemical dopamine plays a sophisticated, dual role in how we learn, influencing both our fast, effortful thinking and ...

Running errands is boring, but running errands with the promise of getting a strawberry iced matcha on the way? Suddenly, it doesn’t sound so bad. It not only makes the experience more fun while it’s ...

In a world in which our dopamine is often depleted or out of whack, we’d be well advised to seek natural, easy ways to increase it. After all, dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role ...

Dreading a task at the end of a long week? There may be a way to trick your brain into seeing that chore as a reward. “Dopamine anchoring” is the latest psychology hack making the rounds on social ...

Dopamine is a crucial chemical messenger in the brain, playing a major role in regulating mood, motivation and movement. It impacts how you experience pleasure, stay focused, and control physical ...